Big Sam parks his Big Bus

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GB will face Italy in April's quarter-finals after Fabio Fognini defeated Carlos Berlocq of Argentina 6-7(5) 6-4 6-1 6-4 for an unassailable 3-1 lead in the best-of-five series.

It's Italy's first victory over Argentina in Davis Cup play, and the loss ended Argentina's 12-year streak of reaching the quarter-finals.

Elsewhere, defending champions Czech Republic reached the quarter-finals of the Davis Cup after Tomas Berdych won the first reverse singles to clinch the first-round tie.

Berdych, an Australian Open semi-finalist, dispatched Thiemo de Bakker 6-1 6-4 6-3 on an indoor hard court at CEZ Arena to give the Czechs an unbeatable 3-1 lead. In the final meaningless match, Igor Sijsling defeated Lukas Rosol to reduce the Czech overall victory to 3-2 in the best-of-five series.

Seeking their third straight Davis Cup title, the Czechs will travel for the April quarter-final to Japan, who beat Canada 4-1 in another first-round tie.

Japan clinched their first ever quarter-final berth when Canadian Frank Dancevic was forced to retire in the second set of his reverse singles match with Kei Nishikori.

Nishikori, who is No. 18 in the world rankings, won both his singles matches and also played in Japan's doubles win on Saturday. Japan improved to 6-0 against Canada in Davis Cup play. The two countries last met in 1938. Go Soeda beat Peter Polansky in the dead rubber to widen the lead to 4-1.

Australia will compete in the playoffs to stay in the World Group, while France will face Germany, after Daniel Brands defeated Roberto Bautista Agut 7-6(5) 6-4 to wrap up a 4-1 win for Germany over Spain.

Brands was the only German player available to play Sunday, after Tommy Haas and Philipp Kohlschreiber won their doubles match Saturday for an unassailable 3-0 lead.

Elsewhere, Dusan Lajovic and Filip Krajinovic won the reverse singles to cushion Switzerland's triumph over Serbia to 3-2. The Swiss had already secured the match with doubles victory on Saturday and will face Kazakhstan in the quarterfinals in April.